Volleyball Preview: Cathedral Prep Ramblers vs. Girard Yellowjackets
The Cathedral Prep Ramblers will challenge the Girard Yellowjackets at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Cathedral Prep has six straight victories, Girard has 31 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Cathedral Prep will bounce into Thursday's game after beating Mercyhurst Prep, who they hadn't topped in four consecutive meetings. Cathedral Prep was the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over Mercyhurst Prep on Tuesday.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Cathedral Prep took every set by at least 11 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-14, 25-8, 25-14.
Cathedral Prep's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Olivia Hutchinson, who had 14 kills, four digs, two aces, and a block, and Kamryn Resurreccion, who had three digs and two aces. Hutchinson is on a roll when it comes to kills, as she's now had seven or more in the last eight games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Mackenzie Moore, who had ten digs and a kill.
Meanwhile, Girard didn't have quite enough to beat Northwestern on Thursday and fell 3-2.
Girard took Northwestern into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking six-point loss. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 25-20, 23-25, 22-25, 15-9.
Cathedral Prep's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 11-9-1. As for Girard, their loss dropped their record down to 0-10.
Cathedral Prep beat Girard 2-0 in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. Does Cathedral Prep have another victory up their sleeve, or will Girard turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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